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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 12</span><span class="fp-text">LA RICHESSE EST NÉFASTE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">MALAS ESSE DIVITIAS</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">C'est avec raison que l'homme de cœur méprise les richesses&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car le coffre-fort éloigne les vraies vertus.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Quand Hercule fut admis dans l'Olympe à cause de son courage,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il salua les dieux venus le complimenter ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais à l'approche de Plutus, fils de la Fortune,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il détourna les yeux. Jupiter lui en demanda la raison&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Je le hais, répondit-il, parce qu'il est l'ami des méchants,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et qu'il corrompt tous les hommes par l'appât du gain.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Caelo receptus propter virtutem Hercules</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">cum gratulantes persalutasset deos,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">venienti Plutone, qui Fortunae est filius,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">avertit oculos. Causam quaesivit pater.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Odi, inquit, illum, quia malis amicus est</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">simulque objecto cuncta corrumpit lucro.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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